Venezuela: War “Has Begun”

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Toby Muse
The New York Post
March 6, 2008

Venezuela and Ecuador reinforced their borders with Colombia yesterday as the three nations traded increasingly bitter accusations over Colombia’s cross-border strike on a leftist guerrilla base in Ecuador.

Rejecting a Colombian apology as insufficient, Ecuador sought international condemnation of the attack during an emergency meeting of the Organization of American States, convened in Washington to help defuse one of South America’s most volatile crises in years.

Venezuela’s justice minister declared that war “has already begun.”

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa called his Colombian counterpart, Alvaro Uribe, a “baldfaced liar.”

Uribe demanded the International Criminal Court try Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for genocide.

President Bush accused Chavez of “provocative maneuvers.”

Colombia said documents found at the base showed rebels wanted to make a radioactive dirty bomb.